The defense Ministry said the number of Russian mercenaries in the Donbas and Crimea

According to the defense Ministry, armed Russian troops are missile systems Tochka, tanks, armored combat vehicles, Grad.

“Only temporarily occupied territory of Donetsk and Lugansk regions, along the state border of Ukraine and in the Crimea expanded the group of the Russian armed forces, which, given the Crimean interspecific associations, has more than 60 thousand armed, trained soldiers,” said Rusnak.

According to him, armed Russian troops “are tactical missile systems Tochka, tanks, armored combat vehicles, artillery systems and reactive systems of volley fire”.

“According to reports, in the first and second army corps (deployed in the occupied Donbas – ed.) command and management positions mainly take human soldiers officers and generals of the Russian armed forces, which are sent in the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine for a period from three to eleven months,” – said Rusnak.

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